forwarded from Carta-L -------- Original Message -------- Subject: The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Oxford U. Press Pulls Geographical Dictionary After Outcry in India Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 11:51:48 -0400 From: Marcel Fortin <[log in to unmask]> Reply-To: maps-l To: I just read about this on the Annoyed Librarian blog...not sure if it's made the rounds yet: http://chronicle.com/news/article/2346/oxford-u-press-pulls-geographical-dictionary-after-outcry-in-india May 21, 2007 Oxford U. Press Pulls Geographical Dictionary After Outcry in India Oxford University Press has suspended sales of a gazetteer published in 2005 after an outcry over errors that was led by historians and government officials in the southern state of Karnataka, the /Khaleej Times/ <http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/May/subcontinent_May784.xml§ion=subcontinent&col=> reports. Among other errors, the book, the /Concise Dictionary of World Place Names,/ <http://www.amazon.com/Concise-Dictionary-Place-Names-Paperback-Reference/dp/0198605374/ref=sr_1_1/103-7209588-5546265?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179746591&sr=1-1> says that the local language in Bangalore, Karnataka’s capital, is Bengali. Actually the language is Kannada. Bengali is spoken in Bangladesh and neighboring regions of northeastern India.
